How+to+use+this+wiki

What is a wiki
A [|wiki] is a website that people can access and collaboratively create and edit pages. Links can be made to resources and further pages. A wiki is an amazing tool for collaboration, policy and guidelines development, research and networking and is a great means of developing communities of practice.

Here is a video that simply explains what a wiki is: Wikis in Plain English

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This wiki is being used to develop a program of online professional development seminars for midwives and health professionals.

==How to join this wiki - you do NOT need to be a member of Wikispaces in order to do any editing or leave a message on any of the 'discussion' pages. But you do need to join if you wish to start your own wiki.==

How to add or edit material
The first thing to do is look in the 'Help' pages. There you will find comprehensive instructions, both written and [|video].

Here is an example: Your name is Lisa and you would like to volunteer to be a 'speaker' during the virtual IDM event. So you would like to put your name and details in the 'Program' section of this wiki.